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My Take and Review of The Warlords, a Film by Peter Chan Starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro
This is a review of the Chinese film, The Warlords, the 2007 film of Peter Chan which stars Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
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The Godzilla Shinsei Series: A Countdown to the Best Movie in the Series
An Asian film enthusiast counts down the Godzilla Shinsei Series, the third of three made within 50 years since the first Godzilla movie in 1954 to the one made in 2004.
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Pepe Le Moko and The Battle of Algiers: The two best films about The Casbah also are two of the best films ever made.
Pépé Le Moko and The Battle of Algiers make such similar use of the fabled old Algiers neighborhood of The Casbah that there are a few exterior rooftop shots in both films that
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Sundance Cinemas: Robert Redford's New Way To Go To The Movies
These days, with streaming downloadable movies, with Netflix, Apple, and YouTube, with the glut of so many visuals so readily available everywhere and the Internet poised to become the fount of mos
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"Sex and the City"? Please don't forget me!
I’ve met a lot of wonderful people while touring to promote the paperback release of The House of Mondavi, but surely one of the most memorable was Helen Dufficy.
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There Will Be Blood: The Best Actor in thrall to a squandered story
It starts well enough, with a striking vision of what it was like to work in a hard-scrabble hole in the ground in the 1890s, in search of silver.
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